"Global synopsis of all achievements and abominations, nobility and meanness, stupidity and wisdom, chaos and space of the past twentieth century.In the insights of Russian poets. In the discoveries of scientists. In the predictions of science fiction. In the tragedies of wars and revolutions. In the history of the atomic bomb...Alexander Katsura's novel is an unexpected and powerful literary phenomenon. It contains a lot of fundamental and interesting information about the key figures and processes of the twentieth century-nuclear physicists and intelligence officers, politicians and writers. This is a philosophical analysis of the epoch in the Grand web of its connections." - Mikhail Weller"the Author managed to tell about the fate and vectors of human development in the main directions: cultural, political, economic and, most importantly, spiritual, within the limits of one, albeit rather voluminous, work, clinging to perhaps the most important problem of the XX century - the creation of an all - threatening weapon capable of destroying humanity." - Valery Genkin, writer, editor-in-chief of the TEXT publishing house»